Code Total Drama
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Chapter 50
The rest of the group fired up their own powers while Aelita dove towards the Guardian holding Duncan. The Guardian moved at high speed towards the edge forcing Aelita to move even faster. Meanwhile the others surrounded Nepilim, ready to gang up on him. Nephilim smirked and summoned four Bloks and three Kankrelats.
"You haven't been around here long enough, pal. Those guys are yesterday's news." Gwen smirked.
"Then allow me to give them a new look." Nephilim smirked as his hand began to glow with acid green energy and a black oily substance left his palm and entered the Bloks first.
The moment the substance entered the monsters they began to shake violently with the XANA Eyes glowing brightly. Their bodies began to slowly crack open, pieces falling to the ground.
The same oily substance Nephilim released went into the Kankrelats next. Just like the Bloks their bodies began to crack open but they also started expand and grow rapidly. The Bloks stopped shaking as they turned gray and stood completely still. That was when something broke out of the front Eye of the center Blok.
The four Bloks fell apart and something came out of their shells. The new monsters were a little bigger than the warriors with sleek bodies, long whip like tails ending with a sharp spike, reptilian like heads with glowing red eyes on top of their flexible necks with long and slender legs the bent backwards with three toe like claws on their feet. Inside of their mouth was a thin metal tube along with razor sharp teeth. On top of their heads was a black Eye of XANA.
The Kankrelats continued to expand like a balloon until they cracked open and large claws tore their way out. In their place stood what looked like mechanical tigers each almost as tall as a Tarantula, their bodies were colored white with black stripes, a small black Eye of XANA on their heads, sharp metallic claws, and a tail ending with a sharp spear.
"What do you think of them now?" Nephilim asked as he held hand in the air. "Attack!"
The monsters roared and charged at them. The Raptors opened their mouths and fired an endless stream of lasers. Picking up her scythe Gwen spun and created a barrier to block the attacks.
"Take this!" Trent shouted as he played a lightning note and launched a blast of lightning at the lead Raptor.
However before it was hit the Raptor, it leaped high into the air dodging Trent's attack. Twisting its body as it flew over the warriors it aimed its head down and fired on them.
Courtney ran out and blocked the incoming lasers with her staff. While she blocked the lasers from the airborne Raptor Gwen continued to block the incoming lasers from the other three Raptors. That was when a Tiger jumped and slashed at her. Gwen cried out when she took a slash to the shoulder which made her drop the barrier and a hit to the knee brought her to the ground.
"I am Izzy, lion-tamer! Hear me roar!" Izzy shouted as she transformed into a tiger and charged forward.
She collided with the first Tiger and began to wrestle with it. The other two roared and charged at her. Trent in the meantime played his barrier note to block the incoming attacks from the three Raptors in front of them with Noah firing at them while Heather and Courtney helped Gwen with the one behind them. Courtney blocked the lasers while Heather fired shuriken at the Raptor.
Gwen got up and glowed white.
"Energy strings!"
White strings came out of her hands and caught the Raptor, immobilizing it.
"Now!" Gwen shouted.
Heather fired several shuriken at the Eye but the Raptor whipped up its spiked tail and slapped the shuriken away.
"Well, that's disappointing!" Heather spoke up.
"Allow me." Noah said.
He fired his gun at the Eye on the Raptor's forehead dead center and it exploded in a matter of seconds. Izzy growled as the three Tigers circled around her, ready to pounce and tear her apart.
"Izzy! What are you doing? You can change into a T-Rex or something big enough to squash them!" Courtney shouted.
"Aww ... That's no fun!" Izzy whined with her tiger face mimicking that of a pouting child.
"Fun? We're going to be killed brutally if you don't do something!" Heather shouted.
"Party poopers!" Izzy said and transformed into her T-Rex form.
She roared and stomped on one Tiger with her foot while another jumped on her back and began to bite and claw at her. Izzy roared as she attempted to shake the Tiger off her while another bit at her legs. Gwen threw her scythe at the Tiger on Izzy's back and cut it in two. With that monster off her back she looked down and caught the last Tiger in her mouth.
She clamped her jaws down on it and the monster shattered into the data once Izzy slammed her jaws shut.
"Ha-Ha! Izzy loves being T-Rex!"
Her celebration was cut short when Nephilim threw his lance and it went straight through head and out the other side. In a matter of seconds Tyrano-Izzy vanished in streams of light and data.
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Meanwhile the Guardian went to the edge and began to fall into the digital sea. Aelita quickened her flight and flew in close to the falling Guardian. Closing her eyes she used her creativity to create an image of Duncan falling next to it. The Guardian saw it and reached out to grab it.
Unfortunately it expanded too much and exploded, leaving an unconscious Duncan to fall into the digital sea. Aelita held out a hand and caught him just before he fell in. Grunting she started to fly back up to the desert platform above her. While she did this everyone had their hands full.
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Gwen ran towards the nearest rock formation, diving past it and then rolling to the side before she stood up again with her back leaning against the wall. She leaned out to take a peek before she quickly retracted her head, barely avoiding a laser blast to the head. Everyone had taken cover after Izzy was devirtualized and they had to hide from the trio of Raptors Nephilim had created. Overwhelmed by their fire power they took cover behind different rock formations that surrounded the monsters.
Taking a chance Gwen leaned out again to take a better look at the enemy. The monsters had their backs against each other, rotating in a clockwise direction and constantly firing lasers, hoping that they would someone. The spell caster leaned back and looked up at the sky.
"Anyone up there have an idea?"
"Sorry, got no ideas for you, Gwen." Cody replied.
"Great." Heather said sarcastically with her against another stone wall.
"I don't see you coming up with a plan."
"Anyone actually have a plan?" Trent asked.
"We surrender?" Noah asked.
Courtney shook her head in disgust. "Anybody have a real plan?"
"Just hold on a minute." Gwen said.
She pulled out her scythe and let the blade part of her weapon face her. Holding it out slowly she exposed part of weapon beyond her cover and used it as a mirror to take a look. The Raptors remained in center with their guns still ready to blast anyone. She also took a look at the rock formations that the others were hiding behind.
"Okay .. . Noah, Trent, can you two get on the top of the rocks you're hiding behind?" She asked.
Trent took a look up to see how high the rock formation was. Even though neither he nor Noah had anything they could use for flying it looked pretty climbable.
"I think so. Why?"
"I need you two to be a distraction for our three new buddies over there. It should give Heather enough time to hit them on the heads and take them out." Gwen replied.
"Did you get all that, Noah?" Trent asked.
"Yeah. Just wish I put more effort on learning how to climb." Noah replied.
"You took a rock climbing class?"
"Kind of."
"You dropped out, didn't you?"
"I plead the fifth." Noah began to dig his hands into the rock and started to climb.
Heather glanced over at Gwen who was still using her scythe to watch the enemy through the reflection on the blade.
"Why do you need them so high?" She asked.
"These guys happen to be a whole lot smarter than our average monster so it's likely they won't take the bait so easily. If they happen to aim a lot higher than usual it should give us a little more time to strike before they notice us."
Heather nodded. "I guess that makes sense."
Gwen noticed from the reflection on her scythe that Noah and Trent made it to their destinations. "Okay, everyone ready?"
"Ready!" Everyone said at the same time.
"Three . . ." Gwen said.
"Two . .." Noah transformed his hands into guns.
"One . . ." Trent whispered as he prepared to play his fire note.
Courtney looked out and saw lasers and fire balls fly at the Raptors from opposite side. Two of them fired immediately on both Trent and Noah. Even though they almost hit them they both emerged unscathed.
"The third one's not doing anything." She said to Gwen. "I don't think this'll work."
"Wait for it." Gwen said, still watching through the reflection on her blade.
That was when the Raptors firing on Trent and Noah stopped firing. She was almost afraid Courtney was right about her plan. That was when the third Raptor turned around and fired in the directions Trent and Noah had been firing. Gwen's fears heightened when she saw that they were aiming at the rock formations Trent and Noah were one instead of firing at them.
"We've got to move!" Heather shouted and Gwen nodded.
Heather turned invisible and Gwen and Courtney ran out of their hiding places, charging towards the Raptors. Gwen threw her scythe at the Raptor firing at Trent and the blade cut off the monster's head, causing the body to collapse and dissolve into data. Heather appeared behind the Raptor in the middle and jumped onto its back. Before it could react she pulled out her wrist blades and plunged into its head, destroying it and propelling her into the air and she landed on her feet.
Before she could take out the final one it whipped its tail out and knocked her back several feet. Gwen activated her Earth Spell and sent a bunch of small rocks at the Raptor. However the Raptor spun and slashed the rocks to pieces with its tail and began to fire lasers out of its mouth. The spell caster ran from side to side, dodging lasers the best she could.
Before it could anymore a beam of light blasted it to pieces. When the light faded they saw Duncan and Aelita standing where it had been. Duncan pulled out his sword while Aelita lowered her glowing hand.
"Are you all right?" Aelita asked.
Gwen nodded, smiling. Courtney ran towards Duncan.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Takes more than some living orange living jello to get rid of me." Duncan replied.
That was when a clapping sound was heard. They turned and saw Nephilim sitting on a large rock clapping his hands.
"Well done. It seems that Aelita's been teaching her new . . . pets on how to survive."
"We're the pets? Dude, you're doing this because you're designed to, and we're doing this because we want to." Noah-seemingly popping out of nowhere said in his usual smart ass way. "Can we all say 'hypocrite'?"
"No but we can say BOOM GOES THE JACK ASS!" Suddenly Duncan's sword was out and he shot a stream of fire at Nephilim, who dodged it almost easily by flipping into the air and landing on the same rock again.
"Tell me, has she taught you how to roll over and play dead yet?" Nephilim asked. "Wait, don't answer, allow me to find out!" He then literally shot lasers out of his eyes.
Duncan reflected them off of the flat side of his sword. "Laser eyes! Aw man that is such a rip off its not even funny!"
"This coming from the guy who ripped off Ghost Rider?" Noah shook his head. "Marvel comics will be so pissed."
"Just like Keeanu Reeves and Paul Anderson will hunt you down for stealing Reeves' look?" Duncan countered.
"GUYS!" Aelita shouted to get their attention. "Can we argue later?" She pointed at Nephilim, who was charging his laser eyes. "We have a fight to win!"
"Sir yes sir!" Both boys said, and then slapped themselves in the faces and corrected themselves. "Ma'am yes ma'am!"
Nephilim fired laser beams from his eyes again. Everyone dodged as the beams hit the ground they stood and created a large explosion. Duncan leaped into the air and raised his sword above his head. He fell next to Nephilim and swung his sword at him.
Nephilim stepped to the right as the sword barely missed him and threw his fist at Duncan, catching him in the jaw and launched him several feet back. Duncan landed on his back and skidded to a halt a few feet away as Nephilim's eyes glowed red.
"Only a fool would try and take me on alone." Nephilim said as he fired at Duncan.
Courtney ran up and tackled Duncan out of the way at the beams destroyed a boulder behind them. In the meantime Gwen activated her Stat Boost Spell and sacrificed twenty life points to increase her speed. Gwen flew at Nephilim who fired several shots at her as she tried to get close. She used her increased speed to get right underneath Nephilim and caught him with an uppercut.
Nephilim stumbled back a few inches and Gwen took the opportunity to run up and drop kick him, causing Nephilim to fall on his back. Before Gwen could raise her scythe to finish him Nephilim swung his foot around and caught Gwen in the knee which forced her to drop to her knees. Nephilim then pulled his feet up and catapulted himself, his feet catching Gwen's face as he landed on his feet.
"Stupid human." Nephilim said as he brought his foot up and then brought it down to slam it into Gwen's face.
Gwen rolled out of the way before Nephilim could slam his foot into her face. Heather took advantage of the distraction and ran at Nephilim and kicked him square in the chest. Nephilim bent down as Gwen took the chance and punched him in the jaw. Nephilim growled as Heather attempted to kick him and he caught her foot and grabbed her ankle.
Nephilim stood up and twirled Heather around like a doll, slamming her into Gwen and knocking them both into the ground.
"It's over now. Go back to your world and pray you never meet me again." Nephilim said as he held out his hand and balled it into a fist.
A white glow appeared as he prepared to fire.
"Like we even wanted to meet the first time." Gwen said as she held out her hand and her Fire Aura activated.
Nephilim's arm was set on fire causing him to miss and the white beam fired and hit a nearby rock. Duncan leapt into the air and landed behind Nephilim as he turned around and kicked Nephilim in the back. The AI fell to the ground on his chest and Duncan stood up quickly. He brought his sword up and prepared to bring it down.
Only Nephilim caught the sword before it hit him. He grabbed Duncan's sword and tossed Duncan to the side. He fired a white beam from his hand at Duncan but just as it was about to hit him Aelita fired her plasma beam and it collided with his attack.
"Ha, always pretending to be the hero, huh Aelita?" Nephilim sneered.
"I don't know why XANA let them find the remains of his copy, but as far as I'm concerned both of you are one and the same. Here's payback for my father!" Aelita shouted and fired a plasma beam.
Nephilim fell backwards making Aelita think she scored a hit, only to watch as Nephilim got back up and fired red beams at Aelita from his eyes. This time he managed to clip her wings and she started to rapidly fall towards the ground. As her wings faded she used what little was left to slow her decent. She landed in a crouch position but she still lost some life points from how hard the landing was.
She stood up and looked to see Nephilim fly straight at her. He grabbed her face and while still flying Nephilim dragged her on the ground, causing her to slowly lose more life points. Aelita luckily managed to raise her hand and fire a shot at Nephilim's wings which sent him to the ground. Before that Aelita managed to free herself from Nephilim's grasp and slowly skid to a halt.
Nephilim hit the ground so hard he bounced a couple of times before finally coming to a halt. The others ran towards Aelita to check up on her.
"You okay?" Gwen asked kneeling next to her.
"I'll be all right." Aelita nodded.
"Here." Courtney held out her hand and gave Aelita some extra life points.
"Thanks." Aelita nodded but then her eyes widened. "Look out!"
Before Courtney could move she was blasted by a white beam from Nephilim who got back up and looked straight at them. Her life points hit zero and her form faded in streams of light and data streams.
"Next."
"Big MISTAKE!" Duncan growled and in a blast of green flames the Berserker reappeared.
It roared and charged forward. Both Nephilim and the Berserker exchanged blows with neither side giving an inch. The Berserker tried to slice at Nephilim with its sword but Nephilim held out his hand and a yellow light appeared acting as a shield which at close range sent the Berserker flying back.
"That was too easy. A bunch of pests like you believe you can defend Lyoko and Ael-"
Nephilim didn't have the chance to finish his sentence as a landside came straight at him, burying him under a wave of sand.
"He's really starting to get on my nerves." Aelita said with a cold look.
"This guy just won't stay down!" Heather said as Nephilim began to crawl out of under the sand with no sign of giving up.
"Then we keep hitting him until he stays down." Gwen said as she flew at Nephilim, ready to cut him in half.
However before she was able to hit him a laser shot hit her in the chest and sent her flying back. Hitting and then she slid down to the ground. Groaning she got up to see what had hit her. Three more Raptors had appeared and surrounded Nephilim who was now leaning on his lance with his eyes closed while the monsters growled at the warriors.
"He's taking a nap?" Trent asked.
"Talk about rude!" Heather snapped.
"Cody, run a scan." Aelita said, looking up.
Cody nodded, even though he knew Aelita couldn't see him and ran a bio scan on Nephilim. He looked over the data and his eyes widened.
"I think I found his weakness."
"What is it?" Heather asked.
"It looks like he's losing his strength. The more he fights the more power he loses. It's like what Lilith said about XANA and his powers. Not to mention how he hacked into the supercomputer. Aelita, you mentioned a part of the virus was downloaded into the mainframe."
"I did." Aelita nodded.
"It's because part of his digital coding was downloaded into the mainframe."
"That explains how he was able to control and summon XANA's old monsters." Aelita said.
"So the more he fights the more tired he gets." Noah said.
"Meaning if we can keep attacking the more tired he'll get." Trent said.
"And we can take him out!" Gwen finished.
Suddenly a white beam hit Gwen in chest and she was devirtualized. Trent turned in time to see Nephilim kick him in the face. Noah turned his hands into swords but was blasted in the leg by another white beam, knocking him on his back. Trent tried to get back up but felt a large foot crushing on his leg. He looked back to see Nephilim had placed a large rock on his leg.
He kicked the guitar out of Trent's hand and knocked Duncan down with his lance and slammed two more rocks on his and Noah's legs. All three of them were now incapacitated. The Raptors that guarded Nephilim earlier now stood guard over them. Nephilim pulled out his lance and slammed down into the ground in front of them, creating a large hole that if anyone fell through would fall into the digital sea and permanent virtualization.
"Now, let's finish this. Oh, and for ever who's up there in the lab thinking of devirtualizing Aelita to save her attempt to do so these three fall into the digital sea!" Nephilim yelled to Cody and the others who were watching in the lab.
He turned to Aelita and Heather and pulled out his lance. Aelita fired two energy balls and Heather fired a stream of shuriken at him. Nephilim however blocked with his lance and slowly approached them.
"This is over, Aelita. This time for good."
Aelita and Heather stepped back as Nephilim advanced towards them. They knew of Aelita was devirtualized while the tower was active Nephilim would continue to cause destruction in the real world and if she was captured it would be all over. They turned and ran while Nephilim began to chase them.
"Wow, the big bad monster likes to play tag." Noah said as they watched from their pinned position.
"Is this a time for jokes?" Trent asked. "And why aren't you phasing out?"
"I'm waiting for the right second."
Aelita and Heather moved behind a rock formation for cover.
"Okay, please tell me you have a plan." Heather said.
Aelita closed her eyes to think of an idea. A second later they opened and she looked up.
"Cody, could you please materialize the OverWing?"
"That was fast. What's the plan?" Cody asked.
"Materialize the OverWing than I'll tell you." Aelita replied.
A second later the OverWing materialized next to them.
"Okay, what's the plan?" Heather asked.
Aelita leaned in and whispered in her ear. Heather's face slowly turned from curiosity to a sinister smile as Aelita finished telling her the plan.
"Nice one."
A moment later Aelita flew out on the OverWing from behind the rock. Heather turned invisible and ran past Nephilim to avoid being seen. Aelita flew closely over Nephilim so he would see her.
"Back for more?" Nephilim asked as he spread his wings and took to the air.
"Aelita, where are you going? The tower's over there." Cody said.
Aelita didn't reply though. She looked over her shoulder to see Nephilim in hot pursuit. She accelerated as she attempted to stay out of reach.
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The Raptors growled as they watched the three trapped warriors underneath them. Any sign of movement would result in them getting blown off the platform and into the digital sea.
"Hey boys." Heather said, appearing out of nowhere behind them.
The Raptors turned to face, losing sight of the three fighters they were guarding. Noah took the opportunity to phase out of the rock pinning him and phased into one Raptor as they charged their lasers. The Noah-possessed Raptor turned and blasted the other two Raptors beside it.
"It's about time you got us out." Noah said as he phased out of the Raptor and Heather shot it in the head while it was disoriented.
"Thanks." Trent said as the rock was taken off him.
"No problem, just don't expect it to become a habit." Heather said.
"Now should we go help Aelita?" Noah asked.
"Don't have to."
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Nephilim slowly gained up on Aelita as she hit full throttle. He fired a white beam from his arm and hit the back of the OverWing which caused it to the crash. Luckily for Aelita she jumped before the OverWing crashed and broke into a sprint. Nephilim flew down towards her and Aelita darted back and forth to shake him off.
Nephilim flew in close and his hand was inches above her head. Aelita yelled as she ducked down in time and Nephilim flew over her. She held out her hand to fire her plasma beam but before she could Nephilim turned and fired another white beam. The beam hit her in the chest and knocked her off her feet.
She laid perfectly still as Nephilim approached her, smirking at his near victory.
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"Come on, Aelita, get up!" Cody shouted into the ear piece.
"Run for it!" Bridgette said.
"Wake up!" DJ spoke up.
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"At long last, the chase is over and you are where you belong. At my feet." Nephilim reached down to pick her up.
Aelita however showed no sign of distress. She looked she was sleeping instead. Nephilim reached to touch her face and her eyes opened.
"You believe that you are nothing like XANA, but it looks like I can still trick you the same way I tricked him!" She said as her form faded in a flash of light.
Nephilim eyes widened for a second before he growled. "A decoy!"
He stood there and knew Aelita was at the tower.
"Next time, Aelita, next time."
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Aelita landed next to the tower and walked inside. Heading into the center of the platform she flew up to the second platform and placed her hand on the screen.
Aelita
Code: Lyoko
"Tower deactivated."
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"Return to the Past now!" Cody said and everyone was engulfed in a dome of white light.
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Aelita woke up staring at the ceiling of her room. She noticed that her laptop was now back in working condition, sitting on her desk like nothing had happened. Which is technically true as the virus attack never actually happened. Which is then she remembered that the supercomputer had been hacked and how everyone had nearly been killed at the hands of a monster named Nephilim.
Her body ached from the entire fight even thought she went back time with everyone else.
'As if XANA coming back after two years making my father's sacrifice worthless, capturing my friends and try to finish me off I now have to face something created from the very copy that we destroyed along with someone whose most likely after me.' Aelita thought as she picked up a picture of herself along with Jeremy, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi a few months after the supercomputer was shut down.
She sighed and lied back down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling.
'When will it end?'
Knowing that her friends will need some help and needing to find out the identity of whoever created Nephilim she got up and walked over to her laptop. Sitting down at her desk she accessed the link to the supercomputer, knowing that Cody had scanned Nephilim during the fight and also that Nephilim had left a piece of his data inside the supercomputer to take control of XANA's old monsters, knowing that even though XANA upgraded his old army the data for the old monsters were still stored inside the supercomputer.
'Looks like today will be a hard day. I better get some breakfast first and then tell the others of whatever I find.'
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"A damn copy!" Heather shouted. "One XANA was bad enough!" She was pacing furiously.
"We're all pretty pissed about it," Noah said calmly.
"Probably not as much as Aelita," Gwen added. "She's done this for a lot longer than any of us and I'm pretty sure she isn't happy about this. She thought she had XANA beat and now he's back, stronger, with a lot of Generals and a copy."
"A copy that her dad was tricked into killing," Cody said. "At the cost of his life, imagine how she feels now."
"About as bad as we are sick of this." Bridgette frowned. "I don't know how those kids did all this for over a year when we've just been barely at it for a month."
"They didn't want to, they had to." Gwen stated. "Going to the government would have made a big political mess and not do a single thing to help."
"And XANA would have wiped the floor with the human race," Duncan finished, slouching on a couch with Geoff and DJ, watching TV.
"It's not that bad! We had to deal with both XANA and Shadow at one point," Cody reasoned.
"And we beat his butt good!" Izzy nodded.
"And the kids didn't have Total Drama to deal with," DJ spoke up. "Man with Chris back it's just worse. When will Kurt and Carlos get back?"
The group looked around.
"...it's not the same without Carlos appearing out of nowhere." Courtney sighed.
"He's probably scarring people for life somewhere else," Noah consoled the group. "Besides, we have bigger problems, like the fact that we've been hacked."
"Can't you just track the hacker and make them have a power outage? Like you did back home?" Cody asked.
"Not likely, the dude's a professional, not a second rate school security system." Noah shook his head.
"So what now? We have a hacker, a new AI on the block, and we've still got XANA to worry about," Courtney listed their enemies. "And his crap load of Generals."
"How many does he have now? Seven?" Trent asked.
"Lilith, Ryder, Yuki, Jinx, Sora, and Blade...so six." Gwen counted.
"Not too bad, we've still got numbers." Duncan shrugged. "And Cody killed Cyrus, and XANA took out Shadow himself. They ain't indestructible. Just need enough time to nail them enough to keep them from coming back."
"Well if I know Aelita she's at work right now trying to figure this out." LeShawna said. "The girl's up at the first stroke of dawn, and I think she gets less sleep than we do."
"Think she could use a hand?" Cody asked.
"You'd have to help at the factory instead of at school, wouldn't look too good for two 17 year old Canadians visiting the 16 year old student during school hours." Noah drawled.
Gwen's phone buzzed. She had it out faster than Lindsay could grab shoes off a shelf in a store-this was honed by repeated weeks of answering it as fast as possible. "Hello?"
She listened... "Aelita! Wow that was fast." She nodded. "Yeah we can show up as soon as possible...don't worry, none of us are getting good sleep after this." She hung up. "Aelita pretty much did your job for you, she got a look at what Cody scanned off of Nephilim and she needs us over at the factory."
"Well, no time like the present." Geoff said.
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Aelita was looking at the computer in the lab, the screen showing information she had found the night before right after the fight with Nephilim. The elevator came down, carrying all twelve of her allies, who poured out into the control room. "Sleep well everybody?"
"'Bout as much as we can with two demonic AIs on the loose, you?" Trent asked.
"Not even all the coffee in the world would have kept me awake after I was done working." Aelita sighed. "After we went back in time I took the chance to do a little research on our new friend, Nephilim and he what is."
She brought up an image of Nephilim during the fight.
"Since he hacked into the supercomputer he was able to take control of XANA's old monsters since the data for all of the original monsters was still stored inside the supercomputer when XANA escaped. He even was able to upgrade them to create new more powerful ones."
"Any idea where he came from?" Gwen asked.
"I think I found some leads last night. It seems Duncan was right when he said someone found a piece of XANA except it wasn't' some 'geek'." Aelita explained.
"Let me guess, it was a very rich geek from a very rich company made of rich geeks who was looking to become a super rich geek and knock Bill Gates off his block." Duncan said.
"...I think he used the word 'geek' too much." Noah whispered.
"Heard that, geek."
"Here's what I found." Aelita brought up a window on the monitor.
The window showed two lines of codes and programs that most of the group couldn't understand. The codes on the first lines were green with symbols that most looked calm and smooth while some looked jagged and sharp. The second line showed codes and programs colored red that all looked very smooth.
"The red codes on this window are XANA's codes that we decoded a long time ago. These are all the basic codes that made up XANA's core program, everything that allowed him and his copy to decide attacks to the most basic programs. In laymen's terms think of them as the brain of XANA's copy."
"...looks bigger than I imagined." Noah commented.
Aelita replied. "The green ones are the new codes that were found in Nephilim. They are not only new but they are almost perfectly flawless, perfectly in tune with XANA's codes. It looks like they've been waiting for a chance to restart Project Carthage but never had the chance until they got their hands on XANA's codes."
"Okay, but what does it mean?" Bridgette asked.
"No one could have just made a new AI out of the codes that were found from the remains of XANA's copy. Someone had to know what these codes precisely meant meaning they would have had to have worked with my parents at one point." Aelita said.
"Someone who worked with your dad on Project Carthage." Gwen said.
"They're still looking for him after so long. They must have learned about me along with Jeremy, Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich from the copy's memories that we were trying to help him which is why Nephilim lured us to Lyoko. He was waiting for us." Aelita said. "But we have an advantage."
"How?" DJ asked.
"Unlike XANA Nephilim is not a multi-agent program so he took control of the supercomputer by inputting a piece of his coding into the core so even if we destroyed the main body he could simply create a new one. But since a piece of his coding is in the core he only has half of his power. He needs time to regain his strength before he can launch another attack."
"That's good to know." Heather said.
"As for finding out who created Nephilim, I have a lead and an idea on how to find who did it but it's going to be a little tricky." Aelita said.
She brought up an image of her father along with a group of teachers that all looked like professors at Kadic Academy.
"This was taken when my father applied for teaching at Kadic Academy. I looked at all the teachers and found they all applied there as well during the same year and were all geniuses in various fields. I believe they applied because they were hired to take part in Project Carthage."
"So one of them could be the one who created Nephilim." Cody said.
"Exactly, but which one or did they all play a role?" Aelita turned to the screen. "To find out we need to talk to someone who knows more about this."
"Who knows more about this whole conspiracy than you?" Cody asked.
"Somebody briefed on it," Aelita then pulled up two pictures. "These two."
"...Aelita, I think you accidently pulled up the Total Drama fan site." Trent said. "That's..."
"Carlos and Kurt?" The entire group exclaimed.
"You remember what they said back at my old house, right?" Aelita asked. "They knew things about my father...maybe we can hope they will offer their help like before. A couple of you did say they'd be trust worthy."
"Carlos hides gun in his house, let me remind you of that." Noah said. "And besides, we don't know where they are."
"And they're sampling Swiss cheese or something." Duncan added.
"Wrong again. I managed to trace their cell phone activity, they're in the city. As for why they left...take a look at this footage I picked up from the studio," Aelita pulled up an image of Carlos and Kurt (Kurt and Carlos damn it all!) talking to Reggie.
"Not only were they briefed on it, but they had files on my grandparents on my father's side, specifically what happened after my parents quit working for the group behind Carthage." Aelita continued. "My grandmother died of suspected lung failure, and my grandfather died when he was run over by a drunk driver...or so the story says. After my parents quit, my father had FBI protection, a fully trained guards. But they had a mole, and my mother was taken. As for my mother's files, they were erased, with no trace of anything about her. The rest is what we already know: my father took me to Lyoko, and XANA turned on us."
"So you think Sylvester Stallone's British cousin and Carrot Top can help us?" Duncan asked.
"They're looking into my family's past as we speak; they're working for the same FBI agent who came to my school after the Red Eye Virus attack. This was why they were called away," Then the image showed two ...identifying Kurt and Carlos as MI6 agents several years ago. "Kurt and Carlos worked in the military and intelligence together for a long time tracing back to when they first enlisted. Carlos was a former SAS Operator right after he graduated from High School, and Kurt was a detective who worked with the Police, Interpol, and MI5 in murder cases and even some terrorism related investigations. They both did work for SAS and MI6 until up to when they were married, retired, and recently were hired as Producers for the latest season of Total Drama."
"Dude...we had MI6 agents with us the whole time? Like James Bond?" Cody asked. "Man that is cool! Those guys are total bad asses!"
"And could have information even we don't know or might be able to find it," Aelita nodded.
"Okay, but how will you bring them in?" Noah asked.
"I knew you would ask, it just so happens that I managed to obtain camera footage from my house during that night when XANA materialized his monsters in the forest. In order to bring them up to speed...I'm going to activate a tower and give them a Spectre carrying a recording of everything that happened, and the location of this factory. I wouldn't be leaving it in them, and would set up a Fire Wall to make sure neither XANA nor Nephilim possess them. It will take seconds, and we could use this for when we return to the past so that we could repeatedly call on their help."
"That's...genius!" Cody nodded. "Let's do it! About time we had some more muscle."
"I just need to dial their cell phones...and..." Aelita paused. "Odd, busy."
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"Chris, if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times! Go near my Klondike Bar pile and you'll wish you stayed in jail!" Carlos growled into his Black Berry.
"Yes I know Sarah," Kurt nodded as he spoke with Sarah over his phone. "I know Carlos blew up the dog house but I have to work with him on this-yes I know Bruno never had fleas before that day." He glared at Carlos. "What did you blow up the dog house with?"
"Well where did you hide my Klondike Bars?" Carlos countered.
"I need a way to calm Sarah down, any ideas?"
"What I need is a way to keep Chris the heck away from my Klondike Bars! I'd kill for one, that's what I'd do for a Klondike Bar!"
"Maybe I should calm Sarah down by saying I got her tickets to that movie, Black Swan!" Kurt grinned.
"I've got an idea! If I tell Chris that I even think a Klondike bar is missing, I threaten to go back and shave his hair off and burn his scalp until it can't grow back!" Carlos smirked evilly.
"Genius!" They both shouted at once.
"Glad I can talk to you about this Carlos."
"I'm always here for you Kurt!"
They relayed their separate messages and hang up.
"Now, where to next-"
Their phones rang.
"Aw what now?" Kurt asked as he and Carlos picked up at the same time.
"Hello?" They asked at once...and twitched as Spectres entered through their ears. They sat in Kurt's car, twitching and sputtering. Several bystanders stared through Kurt's open window as they passed, shaking their heads and muttering about 'Crazy ass brits'.
When it ended, the two ex-agents were staring out the wind shield like fish. Kurt set his phone down. "Are you thinking what I am?"
"I don't know...are you thinking we're either hopped up on drugs or insane?"
"That boat sailed a long time ago...let's roll!" Kurt said. "We have to get to that factory in the visions!"
As he roared off, one could have sworn James Bond theme music was playing. All Kurt needed was an Aston Martin and a martini-shaken not stirred to finish the cliché rip off.
